Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramming. For the moment, they were still determined to stick to voluntary agreements to control priorities and inventories. But, said the statement: "If it appears that voluntary controls are inadequate to meet specific problems, we will consider the granting of authority to meet such particular problems...
...Republicans happy and newsmen jumping.* Said he: "If it is apparent that the Democratic Party is a war party, I will do all I can to see that there is a third party. . . ." He hammered hard at Harry Truman, said that as between Bob Taft and "Truman-of-the-moment," it would be Taft who would get his vote. Next day he took it back; he was just "playing a game of make-believe...
...personnel and equipment have changed, so have pinball habits and morals. The old master of the rolling sphere stood calm and upright by his machine, priming with but a gentle nudge at an opportune moment, playing a cautious, skillful, and fairly conservative game. In contrast to the suave, sure fingered pre-war man, the postwar pinball virtuoso crouches hungrily over his mechanical Christmas tree hammering it viciously and helping out with body English. Others stand aloofly at a distance so as better to see the lights flash...
...only children in the Houses belong to the Housemasters, and they should be able to fend for themselves. Picture a bevy of pet flamingoes gambolling in the Lowell quadraugle, and then ask yourself if the ruling should stay. Only one answer is possible. Picture the physics concentrator taking a moment off from his studies to pat his dachshund, and think again. Let us hope that in the future "feeding time at Winthrop House" will take on a new, more exciting meaning...
...performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before...